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<h1 class="topictitle1">Preparing for the Backup</h1>
<div><p>Before the backup, prepare information such as certificates, accounts, and IP addresses by performing operations described in <a href="#hcs_gud_0010__en-us_topic_0000001514140621_table10744125193920">Table 1</a>.</p>

<div class="tablenoborder"><a name="hcs_gud_0010__en-us_topic_0000001514140621_table10744125193920"></a><a name="en-us_topic_0000001514140621_table10744125193920"></a><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" id="hcs_gud_0010__en-us_topic_0000001514140621_table10744125193920" frame="border" border="1" rules="all"><caption><b>Table 1 </b>Preparing for the Backup</caption><colgroup><col style="width:17.34%"><col style="width:12.75%"><col style="width:53.56999999999999%"><col style="width:16.34%"></colgroup><thead align="left"><tr><th align="left" class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="17.34%" id="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1"><p>Item</p>
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<th align="left" class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="12.75%" id="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2"><p>Mandatory</p>
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<tbody><tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="17.34%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Cinder module certificate</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" rowspan="2" valign="top" width="12.75%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>No</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" rowspan="2" valign="top" width="53.56999999999999%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><p>You need to obtain the certificate only when the certificate needs to be verified during cluster registration. For details, see <a href="hcs_gud_0012.html">Step 1: Obtaining the Certificate</a>.</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" rowspan="7" valign="top" width="16.34%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.4 "><p><a href="hcs_gud_0014.html">Step 2: Registering Huawei Cloud Stack</a></p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Storage resource certificate</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Password of operation administrator <strong>bss_admin</strong> for logging in to ManageOne Operation Portal</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>Yes</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><p>Contact the Huawei Cloud Stack operation administrator to obtain the password.</p>
<p>You can also create a Huawei Cloud Stack operation administrator of the <strong>System</strong> type. For details about how to create an operation administrator in Huawei Cloud Stack 8.0.3 or an earlier version, see the <em>User Guide</em>. For Huawei Cloud Stack 8.1.0 or a later version, see the <em>Resource Provisioning Guide</em>.</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Username and password of a storage device administrator</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>Yes</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><p>Contact the Huawei Cloud Stack operation administrator to obtain the username and password.</p>
<p>You can also create a storage device user whose role is <strong>administrator</strong> and login mode is <strong>RESTful</strong>.</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Floating IP address of Huawei Cloud Stack API Gateway</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>Yes</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><p>On the <strong id="hcs_gud_0010__en-us_topic_0000001379834381_en-us_topic_0000001356308068_b814981519142">Tool_generated_IP_Params</strong> sheet of the <em id="hcs_gud_0010__en-us_topic_0000001379834381_en-us_topic_0000001356308068_i184717348150">xxx_export_all_EN</em> file exported by the Huawei Cloud Stack deployment tool, search for <strong id="hcs_gud_0010__en-us_topic_0000001379834381_en-us_topic_0000001356308068_b14911688169">AGW-LB-Float-IP</strong> to obtain the corresponding parameter value.</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Access domain name of Huawei Cloud Stack</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>Yes</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><p>On the <strong id="hcs_gud_0010__en-us_topic_0000001379834381_en-us_topic_0000001356308068_b119621009179">Basic_Parameters</strong> sheet of the <em id="hcs_gud_0010__en-us_topic_0000001379834381_en-us_topic_0000001356308068_i650482219174">xxx_export_all_EN</em> file exported by Huawei Cloud Stack deployment tool, search for <strong id="hcs_gud_0010__en-us_topic_0000001379834381_en-us_topic_0000001356308068_b95561418151817">external_global_domain_name</strong> to obtain the corresponding parameter value.</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Management IP address of the service storage</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>Yes</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><ul id="hcs_gud_0010__ul179773157314"><li id="hcs_gud_0010__li1797751513310">To obtain the management IP address of Huawei SAN storage, search for <strong id="hcs_gud_0010__b207661154171314">business_rest_url</strong> on the <strong id="hcs_gud_0010__b148857351416">1.2 Basic_Parameters</strong> sheet of <em id="hcs_gud_0010__i615189131412">xxx</em><strong id="hcs_gud_0010__b19763171471417">_export_all_EN</strong> exported by Huawei Cloud Stack deployment tool to obtain the IP address in the corresponding parameter.</li><li id="hcs_gud_0010__li1951120142324">To obtain the management IP address of Huawei scale-out block storage, search for <strong id="hcs_gud_0010__b471116101515">Huawei Distributed Block Storage Business</strong> on the <strong id="hcs_gud_0010__b27111169153">2.3 Portal</strong> sheet of <em id="hcs_gud_0010__i47111162159">xxx</em><strong id="hcs_gud_0010__b19711116101514">_export_all_EN</strong> exported by Huawei Cloud Stack deployment tool to obtain the IP address in the corresponding parameter.<div class="note" id="hcs_gud_0010__note871485915219"><span class="notetitle"> NOTE: </span><div class="notebody"><p id="hcs_gud_0010__p10714859182111">If the storage information of the VM to be backed up is not in the summary file, contact the Huawei Cloud Stack environment administrator to obtain the information and add it to the Huawei Cloud Stack registration information.</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="17.34%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.1 "><p>Administrator username and password of the VDC to which the to-be-protected project, resource set, or EVS disk belongs</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="12.75%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.2 "><p>Yes</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="53.56999999999999%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.3 "><p>Obtain the username and password from the VDC administrator.</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="16.34%" headers="mcps1.3.2.2.5.1.4 "><p><a href="hcs_gud_0015.html">Step 3: Adding a Tenant and Authorizing Resources</a></p>
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